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Business vs residential service
Hope you see the work completed soon. Its great that the federal gov't provides money to local providers to install/upgrade substandard service but the limited profit potential from rural service due to the low density of customers and any competition kind of eliminates any incentive to providers to work fast.
Are they using a local ISP? Where I'm at, the fiber provider is local, so I imagine they have incentive to increase their customer base by expanding their reach. When all this started, they asked people who were interested to "sign up" for the upcoming service, and those of us who did will allegedly get fiber installed ahead of others in the county. Doesn't mean they're fast, of course. I've heard from people who have the service that they're good and responsive once you're receiving their customer. Seeing is believing, though. 🤣🤣
Best of luck to you! Fingers crossed for a November install!
There is only one wired ISP covering the whole county and along the loop run/road I live on there are only a limited number of houses so not too much incentive for them. I’m guessing without the federal grant money, there would be very little if any cost justification for the fiber installation given the number of customers they can service. The copper pairs are maxed out and I can’t get any wired service until the fiber is up, hence the Hughesnet service. I initially started with Viasat and their service was very poor here. Hughes is only slight better but the only option right now. Verizon has approval (2 years ago) for a tower nearby but no construction has started yet. That could be another ISP option down the road.
bcs001 wrote:There is only one wired ISP covering the whole county and along the loop run/road I live on there are only a limited number of houses so not too much incentive for them.
That's the boat I'm in. On the main road, cable stops about a quarter mile from where my road comes into it, and my road is a nearly half mile long dead end with only five houses on it, so there is no incentive whatsoever for them to extend cable that extra quarter mile, then down our road. We have no fiber in my area at all, though if I remember correctly the Verizon access panel at the end of my road is connected to the main office with a fiber backhaul.
Years ago I was working with a Verizon engineer and got enough signatures on a petition to get them to install the necessary equipment in that panel to provide DSL for the immediate area, but by the time I got the petition to them word had come down from on high that, going forward, they were no longer installing new DSL systems and were instead focusing on fiber. If I had done the petition the year prior, or maybe even a couple of months prior, the DSL probably would have happened.
